Jed S. Rakoff : (4)

" I don’t have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections. " - Jed S. Rakoff

" I think it’s common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is. " - Jed S. Rakoff

" I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I’d been given, not made up out of whole cloth. " - Jed S. Rakoff

" Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent. " - Jed S. Rakoff